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Deadly Avian Spending Virus

Updated Dec. 14, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

Just when you thought the budget mess on Capitol Hill couldn't get more embarrassing, Congress is now set to sneak $7 billion of spending to fight the avian flu into an appropriations bill without a penny of offsetting spending cuts.

White House and Congressional leaders have apparently concluded that there's nothing that can be cut from the $600 billion-plus Health and Human Services budget. So we're glad to see that the uncaped...